PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Alsatian Clover {TrifoUum hyhridum). Pulse family. 
May to October. 
The pink clover of the fields, a perennial. The stem rises to 
a height sometimes of two ♦feet, and is branched. Flowers 
fragrant, in spherical heads on long stalks, papilionaceous, later 
bent back. Leaves egg-shaped, fine-toothed. 
Rabbit-foot Clover {TrifoUum arvense). Pulse family. 
August, September. 
A modest annual, common by the roadside, less than a foot 
high, the slender stem often branching. The (perfect) flowers 
are in delicate, oblong, fuzzy, pinkish-gray heads, one-half an 
inch long ; calyx lobes (five) awl-shaped, silky, projecting beyond 
corolla. Leaves of three leaflets, narrow. Dry fields. 
GROUP VIII 
Leaves alternate, simple. Herbs. Flowers in either spike, 
head, or raceme. 
Halberd-leaved Tear-thumb {Polygonum arifolium). 
Buckwheat family. Midsummer. 
A perennial with stout stem, sometimes reaching six feet, 
with backward-bending prickles. Flowers tiny, in close clusters, 
with rose-colored, four-parted calyx. Leaves broadly halberd- 
shaped, stalked, sometimes eight inches long. Wet places. 
The generic name signifies many-jointed. 
Milkwort {Poly gala sanguinea) . Milkwort family. June 
to August. 
A modest annual, under a foot high. The tiny flowers are 
in small heads, spherical to oblong, one-third inch or more 
thick. The flowers have five unequal sepals (pink), two large 
ones (wings), and three petals (yellowish, inconspicuous), 
united. The leaves are linear to oblong. Found in sandy and 
damp ground. Greek, much milk (favoring lactation). 
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